An automatic segmentation method for regional analysis of femoral neck images acquired by pQCT

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 172-184

  Rizzo, G ^a,b   Scalco, E ^a   Tresoldi, D ^a   Villa, I ^b   Moro, G L ^b   Lafortuna, C L ^a   Rubinacci, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOIMAGING AND PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bone segmentation; Femoral neck; pQCT; Regional analysis

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT AND SEGMENTATION; ANGLE ORIENTATION; AUTOMATIC METHOD; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BONE SEGMENTATION; CORTICAL REGIONS; FEMORAL NECKS; HIP REPLACEMENTS; MORPHOLOGICAL APPROACH; PQCT; QUANTITATIVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; REGIONAL ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS; SPATIAL ORIENTATIONS; TRANSITION ZONES;

BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HIP PROSTHESES; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; REGIONAL PLANNING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78650867106     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-010-0154-8     Document Type: Article

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